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Fascinasians

Unapologetically angry, vicious, and emotional.
Arizona raised, New York grown. Turning my rage into power!
Proud Asian American Feminist.


Nov 29 '11
Filipinos: the Invisible Minority?

In the most populous state of California, Filipinos have enough of a population presence that they are counted as a separate ethnic demographic from Asians and Pacific Islanders since the 2000 census.  Yet Filipino cultural visibility and societal participation remains frustratingly minimal given the lack of Filipino restaurants, lack of Filipino celebrities and politicians, and minimal knowledge of crucial historical relationships between the Philippines and the United States.  Filipinos truly are what the Wikipedia entry on “Filipino American” labels as the “invisible minority.” 

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  1. fuckkkyeahfilipino reblogged this from fascinasians
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  5. theywontstfu reblogged this from titotito and added:
    Yes, please do read this. It shames me that I have experiences where people don’t know another group of people—a group I...
  6. titotibok reblogged this from no-longer-solo and added:
    ^^^ love this commentary
  7. biyuti reblogged this from titotibok and added:
    Bolded for stuff that made me go, ‘huh.’
  8. no-longer-solo reblogged this from jaye-beni-motorcity and added:
    i appreciate the struggle here to reckon with the forgotten (post)colonial history of the fil am condition and the...
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  10. quotidians reblogged this from titotito and added:
    Wow. I’m feeling so grateful for this.. have been doing a lot of my own identity work around race/ethnicity and this...
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  13. reallifedocumentarian reblogged this from fascinasians and added:
    There is so much about...US, that never got substantive discussion (at least in my school,...
  14. gallifreygal reblogged this from fascinasians and added:
    It’s an older article but still...fascinating read.
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  16. egana reblogged this from fascinasians and added:
    For reals.
  17. noautopilot reblogged this from immigrantstories and added:
    The amount of parallels between U.S./Filipino history and U.S./Puerto Rican history is amazing. As both countries were...
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